Gallery at UTA, 169 Fine Arts Building

In this talk, moderated by the Art & Art History Department Chair Dr. August Jordan Davis, exhibiting artists Cecelia Feld and Rachel Livedalen will discuss their work currently on view in Paper Trails exhibition at The Gallery at UTA.



Paper Trails focuses on how artists engage with the materiality of paper and books in their artworks, through techniques of appropriation, layering, collage, sculpting, printmaking, and installation.



Cecelia Feld creates brightly colored abstract collages and monotype prints using a variety of materials including photographs, magazines, and her own handmade Japanese marbled papers. She grew up in New York City and received her B.A. from Hunter College, New York in 1963. She moved to Dallas in 1969, receiving an MFA from the University of North Texas in 1976. She was the recipient of a MacDowell Visual Artist Fellowship in Peterborough, New Hampshire and participated in a printmaking residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont in 1997. Feld’s paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs were featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and are part private and corporate collections including Frito-Lay, Inc., I.B.M. and Delta Airlines. Cecelia sees the relationship of the components in her work as being like jazz improvisation, dwelling on themes and variations, repetitive devices, tension and release, harmony, and disharmony.



Rachel Livedalen’s creative practice explores representations of femininity and “girl power” through the lens of art history and visual culture. She earned her MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa and her BA from the University of Virginia. Rachel is currently an Associate Professor at TCU where she heads the printmaking area. Her work has been supported by residencies at the Kala Art Institute, Virginia Creative Center for the Arts and A&H Museums- Maitland as well as by the art installation program of the historic Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Her work is held in the collections of the Mulvane Art Museum, the Bradbury Art Museum, Soho House Austin, and UT Southwestern. Rachel is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX and Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX.

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